Re: moving /gnu to different disk

[carl hansen]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Andreas Enge <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 01:39:02PM -0800, carl hansen wrote:
> I forsee problems when copying /gnu, not reproducing hard links
> but reproducing the data.

You can use rsync with the option "-H" to preserve hard links.

I think your proposed solution with bind mounts will work, but I let
the specialists confirm.

Andreas

Thanks, Andreas and Leo, the

rsync -Hav /gnu/ /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu 

rm -rf /gnu

mkdir /gnu

mount --bind /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu /gnu

seems to be working perfectly.

I hope this question and answer is put into GUIX faq somehow.